Your privacy: Facebook changes the rules YET AGAIN

I realize that you love Facebook more than anything in the world. Nothing makes you happier than to play games, “like” bad photos and waste hundreds of hours every month contacting people without actually having any real contact with them.

But you should be getting sick and tired of the company pulling the privacy rug out from under you. Every four months, it seems, the company changes a setting for 500 million people, doesn’t tell them, and then takes a PR beating when everyone finds out.

When Facebook revealed last year it was introducing facial recognition technology to help users tag their friends in photographs, they gave the functionality to North American users only.

Most of the rest of us found the option in our privacy settings was “not yet available”, which meant we could neither enable or disable it. We simply had to wait until Facebook decided to roll it out to our account.

Well, now might be a good time to check your Facebook privacy settings as many Facebook users are reporting that the site has enabled the option in the last few days without giving users any notice.

I’ve never been a Facebook fan. I quit my account once, only to be goaded back on board by a boss who assured me it was worthwhile.

Well, he’s wrong and it’s not.

My neighbors, whom I love dearly, have a Facebook group. I get crap from them for not being a member. Actually, I was a member and quit.

Whenever they bring it up, I generally say something to the effect of “If I have something to say to you, I know where to find you. I will come over to your house, or call you on the phone, and say it.”

Then I rant and rave about how I use Facebook to stay in touch with distant friends, but would rather just email them.

I don’t mention stuff like this newest privacy breach, but I should. Or maybe I’ll just bury it somewhere in a caption or personal setting and let them harvest it without my permission.